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MMA Still Illegal in New York | Child Pornography is Legal

Recently the bill to make MMA legal in New York failed, leaving the MMA community angry and confused. However, yesterday the New York Court of Appeals ruled that viewing child pornography is no longer a criminal offense. MMA fans are left to wonder why MMA is illegal, but the viewing of child pornography is legal. The law says that viewing child pornography doesn’t qualify as possesssion of it, as long as the content isn’t downloaded.

In 2009, college professor James Kent was sentenced to 1 year in prison on several counts of promoting and possessing child pornography. After an appeal the court ruled that due to the fact that he viewed the content, instead of downloading it, several of the counts were dismissed.

[box_light]The National Post reported on the ruling in question today. The ruling is directly linked to a 2009 case involving college professor James D. Kent, who was sentenced to prison for several counts of possessing a sexual performance of a child and promoting a sexual performance of a child. The appeals court dismissed one count of promoting and one count of possession due to the fact that the images were only viewed online, and not downloaded. Current law states that viewing the image on the internet does not constitute possession, and is therefore not illegal.[/box_light]

xaninho spot on my friend you hit nail on the head. I say screw NewYork the only reason Dana wants in there so bad is so they can put on an event at Madison square garden. Its all a status thing with them. yes and millions in revenue but they already have spent millions on lobbying to get in there. Time just to cut their losses and move on.

I DO NOT VIEW CHILD PORNOGRAPHY!!!!!!! IVE GOT TWO BABY GIRLS!!! IMABSOLUTELY DISGUSTED BY PEOPLE WHO DO OR WOULD EVEN THINK OF IT. IM CHECKING OUT THIS POST TO SEE WHY MMA IS ILLEGAL AND CHILDPORONGRAPHY IS NOT!!!!

SHUT THE FUCK UP AND STOP TYPING IN ALL CAPS YOU OVERLY EMOTIONAL IGNORANT FUCKING BITCH!!!!. You do realize that if you click on a webpage or ad by accident and it redirects you to a page full of porn which could be child porn on it that it is automatically saved to your fucking computer. You are so damn ignorant already in an uproar and you don’t even know how your computer works. I’ve seen this material on the internet before that does not mean i sat there and watched it or viewed it. I have been on a porn website where it has inappropriate material like that and then i leave the website however that is forever saved to my cache whether i wanted to view it or not. I don’t even have to scroll down the page to see it. the moment that page loads up it is there. BUT AN IGNORANT EMOTIONALLY CHARGED DUMB ASS CUNT SUCKING BITCH LIKE YOU WOULD NOT KNOW SHIT ABOUT TECHNOLOGY…WOULD YOU YOU IGNORANT FUCKER? NO YOU WOULDN’T!!! YA DUMB BITCH!!!

To start off with, drop your language and your attitude.
Secondly It isn’t cached forever. Clear your cache and it is gone.
Thirdly this law is actually to protect in this instance, as you said if you go on a website it downloads thumbnails of the image, under the old law you would be done for possession of child pornography but now under the correction you won’t, still think it is such a bad idea?
Fourthly, no porn site will be displaying child porn as porn websites like to make money, if you’ve been seeing it on them you need to start visiting normal porn sites and not the dodgy ones you must be going to.

Paul i agree with you. I’m not saying i am a porn expert but i would be a lier if i said i did not visit some sites at times. this being said, i don’t know why he got so mad or used that strong of language. i have never come across child porn in all my years of looking at sites, again in moderation, but never once did i ever see any. thank god. but i don’t think the girl meant it the way he took it. the way i read it was that she was just saying she didn’t agree with people seeking it out and wanting to look at it. she didn’t seem to be saying “if anyone who looked at it by mistake”. now, i don’t know anything about computers really, but i do know the porn sites do not show child porn. the ones i looked at anyway. she didn’t say anyone who looked at it including by mistake, just the people who want to look at it. and what sites could he have been on where that stuff would come up? anyway, i agree with you. that was harsh and it should not even been allowed to post in here. that girl may not come back due to that. and she was on the side of mma…..

hell with New York liberal run bs mma fans should do like everyone with money in NY is doing and move. As for the kiddie porn just remember people justice is not nessesarily leagal and the law is not nessesarily just. Still more proof that we have a leagal system in this country not a justice system.

Understand the law befor eyou talk about it. Look up cache and jpeg images. Then maybe you will understand that you can’t control internet content and just because you got on the page it does not mean you wanted to see it. It is however saved to your computer forever. Don’t be mislead by a biased article.

idk why penn put up this biased article that did not inform anyone of the actual law. The law states the viewing is not illegal because anybody who is on a webpage that may have a picture of child pornography on it has that picture forever saved into their computers cache. That means even if you clicked on an ad that led to more ads and you didn’t even scroll down the page. its alreayd there. If you are on a porn site with user uploaded material and someone decides to upload child porn and you click on that persons uploads just to see whats there. every image of cihld porn on the page is now in your cache. As long as you don’t purposely download it its okay. Many Laws are designed to avoid arresting the innocent. Many of you are just to ignorant about how the internet and your computer works.

What’s wrong with you people, it still isn’t legal to view child porn in NY, the guy is in jail. They just dropped the possession part because he didnt possess it, stop trying to put such a dramatic spin on shit. That kind of sensationalism only gives a bad name to intelligent fans of MMA and makes the group as a whole look like a bunch of neanderthals.

agreed ninja….watching it is fucked up. i don’t care if you own it or not. who gives a shit. these people in here should be dropped off onto an island and left there. now, if someone does really by mistake stumble on it, i don’t think anyone should be punished if they did not mean to. but then again im 43 and i have never seen it or stumbled on it. but watching it is just as bad. i don’t care if you own it or not. but god forbid we have mma. i just lost all respect for NY. fuck them. they made me love NJ now…

This isn’t liberal bullshit. I’m a liberal and i think this is disturbing and disgusting. Plus i’m a lover of mma. So fall back with that liberal policy bs. Hell i think most of the government is bullshit anyway.

i should not be laughing. this is serious. but when i read “that judge is a kiddie fiddler” i almost pissed myself…very funny shit….and i agree with your post…that was really funny…sometimes humor is needed even in the worst of situations or topics…good post.

what the fuck is right? there is always something crooked going on…always. can we do anything without someone trying to line their fucking pockets or people in politics trying to get over on the public they are paid to serve. do they know what it means to serve. i think in order to go into politics you MUST serve in the armed forces of some kind. i’d like to know who the idiots are that are responsible for this so we know how to vote them out of office.

Dr David Kenneth Cochrane Registered Sex Offender Six Counts of rape including minors, three counts of indecent assault all involving patients dating back to the early millennium. Psychiatrist 6 months in Jail, 2 years probation, including 6 month license suspension. Canada North Bay Ontario and now re-employed for the regional health centre.

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